In this classic novel of the Southwest, Byrd Baylor paints a sensitive and humorous picture of the Tohono O'odham people who have moved away from the reservation find an unfamiliar and often puzzling world of urban white society in Tucson, Arizona. This book is a timeless story of cultures in conflict and an engaging account of how the characters have uniquely adapted to a modern world.

As her family attempts to calculate the value of the desert hills, the colors of blooming cactus, and the calls of eagles and great horned owls, a young girl--who has been led astray by the family's lack of material wealth--realizes what really matters.

The Caldecott Honor author/illustrator team that brought readers "The Desert Is Theirs" and "The Way to Start a Day" returns with this tale of truly listening to the world around us. In "The Other Way to Listen," a young boy is eager to learn and an old man is happy to share his wisdom.

"These tales go back to the beginning of tribal memory, but they are part of the present too. In collecting them, I looked for the oldest sources and best translations and compared them with what people in different tribes had already told me. Then I looked at the mountains a long time". -- Byrd Baylor

The acclaimed team of Baylor and Parnall presents a radiant prose-poem about a girl who shares her love of desert life as she tells of treasured experiences such as dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day and sleeping outside during the Time of the Falling Stars.

You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter Parnall's striking illustrations lime the sky, stone and sand of the desert in this haunting book.